The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-18

tanned in said will. The said char
ter will be c0untersigned and spread |
upon the records OF said church as
the official action of said officers,
whereupon said officers and their
successors will pay to said board OF
trustees all sums Of money that
may come into their hands under
the provisions of said will or from
any other source for the benefit of
said school to be applied in dis
charge of the trusts aforesaid.
Resolved, that if said board of
trustees refuse 10 accept the trusts
herein rendered to them or refuse
or TAIL to incorporate themselves
within the time alloged by law the
officers Of said church reserve the
right to nominate and elect a new
board for said purposes.
Resolved, that we retain and re
serve the right in the officers OF
said church TO nominate the per-
sons from whom all new boards of
trustees for said schools shall be
chosen or elected and from whom
all vacancies shall be filled which
may from time to time occur in
said board. No trustee shall be
elected or be legal member of
said board who has not first been
nominated by the officers Of said
church in such manner as they may
designate.
Resolved, that said board is here
by requested to consider the pro
priety Of placing said school in its
charter of incorporation under the
fostering care and patronage of the
Tennessee Annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
as being in harmony with the views
OF said testator and for the better
success of the same.
Resolved, that nothing herein
contained small be construed as in
tending to throw off the rights
vested in the officers of said church
nnder the provisions Of said will OF
to shift or subvert the execution OF
said trust but the same is intended
to secure the faithful execution o!
the same.
Resolved, that the foregoing pre-
amble and resolutions be adopted,
signed and spread upon the records
of SAID church as the official action
of said officers in the premises.
JNo. z. McFERR1N, CHI m,
JNO. G. LESTER, Sec'y.
I. NJ. n. JONES, S. and T.,
w. I. BALLENTINE, S. and T.
j. b. CHILDERs, S. and T.,
Jno. 7. STEELE, S. and T.,
j. L. PEARCY, S.,
A. Cox, S. and T.,
i. SHAPAKD, S. and t,
+. ARRowsMITH, S. and I.
1t will be noticed that this is :
very formal minute and recites Oh
its faca that il was q fall meeting
of the ofHcegs OF the church of Pu-
luskI and comprised the stewards
aad trustees and the preacher il
charge and that after having TIN
will read and considered the sam
under the sanction and assent 9
the executor they solemnly declared
that they were the officers intended
and designated in the will and the,
formally accepted the trusts and be
quests. They further declared tina
s. it was proper and necessary in or
E. der to carry out said trusts and h
q true intent of the testator that the,
should elect n board of trustees 70
4 school to be thereafter built "a
. under said will aud they thereupol
named nine gentlemen as suitabl
persons for trustees to build up an
establish female school in Pulaski
20 be under their authority, cOntro
and supervision and that of thei
successors at all times as cOrpC
ration and such as would be prOI
. er recipient at all times of the dc
lations contained in said will an
SAID persons were notified OF thei
selection and were requested to in
corporate themselves under TIE lay
and they then and there declare
thai they would cause TO be pal
over 10 said corporation all sums c
moLey arising under said will o
otherwise and pledged the same t
said corporation SO created. Tbi
was not only done by the officers c
the church at Pulaski bat was &C
guessed in by the presiding eide
and the church generally and the
had fall and ample notice of tn
same.
Exhibit No. 3 is copy of tb
charter set on foot by the officers 9
the church and is made part of thi
20" sSas follows:
FEMALE COLLEGE CHARTEu
'CfarpI .Iulv l1tI 1870